Definitions for begets

begets be·get

Spelling: [bih-get]
IPA: /bɪˈgɛt/

Begets is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in begets (beegst).

Definitions for begets

verb (used with object)

  1. (especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
  2. to cause; produce as an effect:

Origin of begets

before 1000; Middle English begeten (see be-, get); replacing Middle English biyeten, Old English begetan; cognate with Gothic bigitan, Old High

Examples for begets

It begets a solitude in a vast thronged assemblage for you and for me.

It is not a power which begets objects, nor is it a power which begets relations.

The worst of one kiss of that kind is that it begets the desire for others like it.

And just as buying begets more buying, selling often begets more selling.

They repeated it, and wrote down as a recipe, "Love begets life."

This begets a very natural question; What is meant by a sceptic?

This she said with that genuine tone which begets confidence.

They make for him a fame which begets respect where his wrongs only excited pity.

These lies are like the father that begets them; gross as a mountain, open palpable.

It also begets a plastic surgery chic, where people trade faces like they do cars.

Word Value for begets
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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